Age of Enlightenment

What best describes Natural Rights?

• Who you are in Nature

• Rights you are born with.

• Rights the Government gives you

• Rights yo Mama gives you.

Which is an example of how Enlightenment thinkers base science on?

• The Scientific Method

• Old texts from Ancient Greece

• Technology from the Middle Ages

• Religious Superstition

What is a Monarchy

• Government ruled by a royal family and power is given to one ruler

• Government uses voting to create laws

• Government ruled by a religious institution

• People who do not have a government and simply help each other

Believed having 3 branches in government would prevent tyranny.

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Descartes

Believed all people are born free & equal with three natural rights- life, liberty, and property.

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Descartes

Fought for civil liberties- rights/freedoms of citizens

Freedom of Speech

Freedom of Religion

Separation of Church and State

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Smith

• Diderot

• Wollstonecraft

the illuminati was most notably recognized as being founded in

• 1800

• 1776

• 1912

• 1675

Who invented the printing press?

• Martin Luther

• Marco Polo

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Isaac Newton

Printed books, papers, and articles allowed for experiments and discovery to happen more widely and rapidly in which time period?

• the Reformation

• the Renaissance

• the Enlightenment

• the Scientific Revolution

What was Copernicus's Theory?

• That the planets revolved around the sun

• That the sun revolved around the earth

• That everything revolved around the moon

• That all of the planets were actually staying in place